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Total Cost of Lunacy?

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 04:07 PM EDT

What puzzled me was that the panic response was said to be
invoked by the CIO. It would have been bad enough, but still
understandable had he used Nuke'n'Boot to reimage -all-
systems on his patch. Of course it's a reflection on higher
management that they didn't define the CIO requirements to HR.

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There is one sane line of reasoning - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 05:03 PM EDT
- There is one sane line of reasoning - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 05:36 PM EDT
  - Sorry - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 11:54 PM EDT
- masking - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 10:44 PM EDT
- There is one sane line of reasoning - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 11 2013 @ 04:14 PM EDT
Well hidden malware? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 11 2013 @ 04:26 AM EDT
- Well hidden malware? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 11 2013 @ 06:12 AM EDT

Infected mice ARE possible...

Authored by: Marc Mengel on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 05:00 PM EDT

I actually read an article a while back about some folks that broke into a site by planting extra USB hardware inside a mouse (i.e. USB drive, fake keyboard, etc.) such that the mouse could, when it had been inactive for a few hours, reboot the computer and tell it to boot off of the (included) USB drive; at which point they had a live system inside the firewall to call out and get them a foot in the door to break in.

So this mode of attack is known, has been done before, and is not beyond the realm of possibility.

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Infected mice ARE possible... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 07:22 PM EDT
- Infected mice ARE possible... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 09:09 PM EDT
There are gaming mice which REQUIRE Internet access - Authored by: artp on Thursday, July 11 2013 @ 01:47 PM EDT

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